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Analysis of food system drivers of deforestation highlights foreign investments and urbanization as threats to tropical forests

2024-02-06

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>According to the latest Global Forest Resources Assessment, approximately 90% of global forest cover changes between 2000 and 2018 was attributable to agricultural expansion, positioning food production as the greatest direct driver of deforestation. Our understanding of direct and underlying drivers of deforestation has generally been informed by land systems studies focusing on how in...

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Literature Corpus work: 10f541ce-ea0f-50b7-8060-798d3759de7a
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3901209/v1

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